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To Serve Them All My Days. by Delderfield, R.F. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The protagonist is David Powlett-Jones, a coal miner's son from South Wales, who has risen from the ranks of the South Wales Borderers and been commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in World War I after serving three years in the front-line trenches. In 1918, after being injured and shell-shocked, he is employed to teach history at Bamfylde School, a fictional public school in North Devon, in the south-west of England. He swiftly earns the respect of many of his colleagues, with the notable exception of Carter, an ambitious science master and Commanding Officer of the school's Officer Training Corps (OTC), whose military bearing compensates for the embarrassing fact that he was released from military service, for medical reasons, one week prior to being sent to the Western Front. Carter makes no secret of his outrage at the content of David's history lessons, which include recollections of life at the front -- David has rejected wartime propaganda and grown to respect German soldiers -- and honest analyses, verging on socialism, of the war's political background and potential consequences. Following the Armistice, the two men disagree on whether or not the school should erect a war m

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Author

Delderfield, R.F.

Publisher

Hodder and Stoughton

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780340258200

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.28 / 5 (189 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14